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HOUSTON: A NASA contractor took two co-workers
hostage at Johnson Space Center, killing one of them before turning
the revolver on himself. Bill Phillips, an engineer with Jacobs
Engineering who has barricaded himself inside the building Friday,
after managing to sneak a revolver past security at the sprawling
space center campus, police and NASA officials said. Phillips shot
David Beverly in the chest, killing the NASA employee, and later
shot himself in the head inside Building 44, a communications and
engineering facility. The second hostage, Fran Crenshaw, another
NASA contract worker, was found duct-taped to a chair a few hours
after the standoff began. She was treated at a hospital and
released.
London: BRITAIN’s Queen
Elizabeth II was marking her 81st birthday in private on
Saturday—a far cry from last year’s public celebrations in front
of cheering, flag-waving crowds. The queen, on the throne since
1952, was to spend the day in private at Windsor Castle, west of
London—the royal residence she considers home—and enjoy a
private dinner with her husband Prince Philip, 85.
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